Whilst The Australian‘s Greg Sheridan was enjoying dinner with Tony Abbott in Lygon St the other night, secure in the knowledge that the government wasn’t busy making judgments about their private lives and declaring them some kind of second-rate arrangement, a terrible thing occurred. Some young gay people and their friends – the very people [...]
READ MORESomeone’s desperate here, Greg, but it doesn’t look like it’s the Government
The Australian on Saturday: SOUTH Pacific nations including the politically fragile Solomon Islands are appealing to the Australian government to make them part of a new Pacific solution for processing asylum-seekers… Sources told The Weekend Australian that an approach was made by the Solomons government some time ago through Australia’s parliamentary secretary for Pacific islands [...]
READ MOREThe Australian turns unsourced claims into a national security threat
Today’s efforts at The Australian take their claims about Julia Gillard’s alleged “disregard for national security” and try to beat it up into a full-blown foreign policy crisis. It’s a nicely-developed line of smear that ties together their news reporting with their opinion pages. Of course, it’s also built on a foundation of anonymous claims, [...]
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Gaza flotilla two days later: Opinion round-up
Andrew Bolt’s take on the flotilla boarding hits the newsstands today, with a column condemning those who have rushed to take one side’s version as the truth. Of course, that’s something he would never do, having carefully waited – perhaps for as long as several hours yesterday morning – until he had enough snippets of [...]
READ MOREAll adrift on asylum seekers
The Australian is giving it to Kevin Rudd over the Oceanic Viking today, and not without reason. I tend to agree with Dennis Shanahan and Paul Kelly – of course there was a special arrangement, and for Rudd to try to hold a line of denial on that point is a ridiculous attempt at impression [...]
READ MORELunacy, meet incoherence
Greg Sheridan thinks allowing women to join all front-line Army units is lunacy – “the single stupidest idea I have heard in my life,” he calls it. But his column in rebuttal of the proposal is one of the more incoherent pieces I’ve read lately – pulling in strands from a whole range of different [...]
READ MOREBecause we’ve got to have friends
I’m sitting here trying to get Greg Sheridan’s latest column straight in my head. Apparently, it’s up to Kevin Rudd to get a US ambassador to Australia appointed – pronto. Because it’s incredibly bad that the post is vacant. And the post was vacant for 18 months between the two ambassadors appointed by George W [...]
READ MOREFour months and five days
Yesterday Barack Obama had been President of the USA for four months and five days when the loopy North Korean regime detonated its second nuclear blast (the first was three years ago — three years before Obama was President.) Obama-haters everywhere have gleefully pointed their fingers at his diplomacy-centred approach to foreign affairs. Greg Sheridan: [...]
READ MOREYesterday an opinion writer, today a gossip columnist?
Greg Sheridan has a scoop: What is Kevin Rudd planning to do after his stint as our Prime Minister? In the past few weeks I’ve heard from three quite credible sources that the PM has given a lot of thought to having a shot at becoming the UN secretary-general. After starting with such a bang, [...]
READ MOREAsylum seeker column cage-match
The Australian has published two takes on the political issues about unauthorised boat arrivals. Greg Sheridan says: It may well be that the Government’s softened policies on border control have led to the recent sharp upsurge in illegal arrivals. If so, this has the potential to become extremely toxic politically – and to do so [...]
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